Community Service; Clean and Healthy Living Behavior of Pre-School Children Prevents the Spread of Covid-19 in Konawe Regency Coastal Region of Southeast Sulawesi Province

Hand washing with soap (CTPS) is one of the sanitary measures by cleaning hands and fingers using water and soap, one indicator of clean and healthy living behavior are washing hands with soap.The purpose of this community service is to find out the ability to wash hands properly by using soap and running water in kindergarten children.The implementation methods in this activity include the preparation stage, the implementation stage and the evaluation stage.The partner in this activity is a kindergarten in Sorue Jaya Village.The result achieved from this container activity is that there are 25 kindergarten children who participate in hand washing activities there are 1 person (4%) who are able to wash their hands properly before doing the practice of washing their hands and there are 24 people (96%) who are not able to wash their hands properly.After the practice of washing hands there are 14 children (56%) who are able to wash their hands properly and there are 11 (44%) who are unable to wash their hands properly.The conclusion of the activity is that there is an improvement in hand washing skills properly after the practice of washing hands with 8 steps. Situation AnalysisClean and healthy living behavior (PHBS) is all health behaviors carried out because of personal awareness as a result of learning so that the family and all its members are able to help themselves in the health sector and have an active role in community activities, children are an important asset in achieving the success of a country, because children are the next generation of the nation, the degree of child health cannot be said to be good because there are still many problems.Health, especially in schoolchildren, school-age children is a critical age group because at that age they are prone to health problems Gustina et al. [1].Optimal health degrees can be achieved by the implementation of PHBS in groups into 5 orders, one of which is in educational institutions, namely in schools, PHBS in schools need to get attention where school-age children, especially the elementary school level, are the time when children are susceptible to various diseases, which generally turn out to be related to clean and healthy living American Journal of Biomedical Science &